Samsung Galaxy Tabs For Dummies (Paperback)

Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 Beyond the Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Part I: A Galaxy in Your Hands 5 Chapter 1: A Quick Orientation 7 Set Up Your Galaxy Tablet 7 Opening the box 8 Charging the battery 8 Know Your Way around the Galaxy 9 Finding things on the tablet 9 Inserting and removing a microSD card 12 Getting optional accessories 14 Where to Keep Your Tablet 15 Making a home for the tablet 15 Taking the tablet with you 16 Chapter 2: The On and Off Chapter 17 Hello, Tablet 17 Turning on your Galaxy tablet (for the first time) 18 Turning on your tablet 20 Working the various lock screens 21 Unlocking the tablet 22 Unlocking and running an app 23 Account Creation and Configuration 23 Obtaining a Google account 23 Adding accounts to the tablet 24 Farewell, Tablet 26 Locking the tablet 26 Controlling the lock timeout 26 Turning off your Galaxy tablet 27 Chapter 3: Find Your Way around the Galaxy 29 Basic Operations 29 Touching the touchscreen 30 Changing the orientation 31 Controlling the volume 32 Behold the Home Screen 33 Touring the Home screen 33 Accessing multiple Home screens 35 Using common buttons and icons 35 Home Screen Chores 37 Starting an app 37 Accessing a widget 38 Reviewing notifications 38 Making Quick Settings 39 Visiting the Apps screen 40 Reviewing recent apps 41 Playing with Multi Window 42 The Magical S Pen 44 Understanding the S Pen 44 Using Air Command 45 Doing some S Pen tricks 46 Chapter 4: Typing and Text 47 This Is a Keyboard? 47 Using the onscreen keyboard 47 Accessing special keyboard symbols 49 The Old Hunt-and-Peck 50 Typing one character at a time 50 Typing quickly by using predictive text 51 Adding SwiftKey Flow 52 Scribbling text with the S Pen 53 Google Voice Typing 53 Activating voice input 53 Dictating input 54 Uttering s words 55 Text Editing 55 Moving the cursor 55 Selecting text 56 Cutting, copying, and pasting 57 Part II: Tablet Communications 59 Chapter 5: All Your Friends in the Galaxy 61 Meet the Tablet's Address Book 61 Using the Contacts app 62 Sorting your contacts 63 Searching contacts 64 More Friends in Your Galaxy 64 Creating a contact from scratch 64 Creating a contact from an e-mail message 66 Importing contacts from your computer 67 Grabbing contacts from your social networking sites 68 Manage Your Friends 68 Editing contact information 68 Taking a picture of a contact 68 Building contact groups 70 Making a favorite 72 Joining identical contacts 72 Separating contacts 73 Removing a contact 73 Chapter 6: Mail of the Electronic Kind 75 Galactic E-Mail 75 Setting up an Email account 76 Adding even more e-mail accounts 77 You've Got E-Mail 78 Getting a new message 79 Checking the inbox 79 Reading e-mail 80 Write That Message 82 Composing a Gmail message 82 Crafting an Email message 83 Sending e-mail to a contact 84 Message Attachments 84 Dealing with attachments 85 Sending an attachment 86 E-Mail Configuration 86 Creating a signature 87 Configuring the manual delete option 87 Setting the primary e-mail account 88 Chapter 7: Web Browsing 91 Mobile Web Browsing 92 Viewing the web 92 Visiting a web page 93 Browsing back and forth 94 Working with bookmarks 94 Managing web pages in multiple tabs 95 Searching in and on the web 96 Sharing a page 96 The Art of Downloading 97 Grabbing an image from a web page 98 Downloading a file 98 Internet App Controls and Settings 100 Setting a home page 100 Changing the way the web looks 100 Setting privacy and security options 101 Chapter 8: The Digital Social Life 103 In Your Facebook 103 Setting up your Facebook account 104 Getting the Facebook app 104 Running Facebook on your tablet 104 Setting your status 106 Uploading a picture to Facebook 107 Configuring the Facebook app 109 Tweet Suite 110 Setting up Twitter 110 Tweeting 111 Even More Social Networking